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Genre and the Crisis of Narrative

updated: 
Tuesday, January 17, 2017 - 10:37am
Marxist Reading Group
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 27, 2017

The Nineteenth Annual Conference of the Marxist Reading GroupGenre and the Crisis of NarrativeKeynote Speakers: Peter Hitchcock, Mathias Nilges, Nnedi Okorafor23-25 March 2017University of Florida, Gainesville, FL As a cultural dominant, neoliberalism inhibits our ability to think the future. Following Mathias Nilges, neoliberalism can be understood as a dialectic of fiction and reality, and its temporal crisis can be said to be accompanied by crises of narrative in contemporary cultural forms. As the enabling fictions of neoliberalism increasingly become reality, what narrative forms can help us to once again imagine the future as difference?

Innovative Approaches to Teaching Poe

updated: 
Wednesday, November 16, 2016 - 10:06am
ALA Boston - Poe Studies Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, January 15, 2017

At the upcoming American Literature Association Conference in Boston (May 25-28, 2017), one of the Poe Studies Association’s panels will focus on Innovative Approaches to Teaching Poe.

 

Possible paper topics include pedagogy based on the use of online databases, adaptations of Poe’s works, connections to non-literary disciplines, reading non-gothic Poe texts, unusual writing assignments, group activities, social media, and classroom experiments.

 

This panel has been organized and will be chaired by PSA Member-at-large Cristina Pérez.

Aesthetics, Politics, and Ethics in Fractured Times - 2017 ASPECT Graduate Conference

updated: 
Monday, December 5, 2016 - 1:58pm
The Alliance for Social, Political, Ethical, and Cultural Thought (ASPECT)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, December 15, 2016

***Extended Deadline: December 15, 2016***

Call for Papers

Aesthetics, Politics, and Ethics in Fractured Times

2017 ASPECT Graduate Conference - Friday, March 31st – Saturday, April 1st

The Alliance for Social, Political, Ethical, and Cultural Thought

Location TBA

Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA

www.aspect.vt.edu www.facebook.com/aspectvt aspect@vt.edu

 

[DEADLINE EXTENDED] Ecology/ies | February 24-25, 2017

updated: 
Friday, February 10, 2017 - 11:54am
Northeastern University English Graduate Student Association
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, February 15, 2017

Ecology/ies

February 24-25, 2017

Northeastern University

 

Deadline extended: now February 15, 2017

 

Though scientifically dense and tethered to biology, ecology—particularly in its multiple, ecologies—is an area rich for discussion and interpretation. At its root, the word “ecology” comes from the Greek word oîkos, meaning “house.” At its most basic translation, “ecology” becomes “study of the house,” and is open for the complex questions about this space of living and interaction.

 

CFP: "BUFFY at 20" Conference (Marquette University, April 1, 2017) - EXTENDED DEADLINE

updated: 
Monday, December 19, 2016 - 9:59am
Marquette University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 6, 2017

CFP: BUFFY AT 20
April 1, 2017
Marquette University
Milwaukee, WI

https://gerrycanavan.wordpress.com/2016/11/12/cfp-buffy-at-20/

EXTENDED CFP DEADLINE: JANUARY 6, 2017
Please submit 250-500 word abstracts to gerry.canavan@marquette.edu and james.south@marquette.edu.
Participants will be notified by January 15, 2017.

Keynote Speaker: Sherryl Vint, University of California, Riverside

American Indian Workshop 2017 - The Art of Resistance and Resurgence

updated: 
Tuesday, November 15, 2016 - 10:08am
American Indian Workshop
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, December 15, 2016

Proposals are invited for the thirty-eighth American Indian Workshop, to be held at Goldsmiths, University of London from July 4-6, 2017. Papers are welcome from all fields and on any topic, though priority will be given to those that speak to the conference’s key theme.

Dos Passos and New England, Panel ALA 2017

updated: 
Tuesday, November 15, 2016 - 10:08am
John Dos Passos Society
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 20, 2017

The John Dos Passos Society invites proposals for a panel scheduled at The American Literature Association’s 28th annual conference, which will meet at the Westin Copley Place in Boston on May 25-28, 2017 (Thursday through Sunday of Memorial Day weekend). The deadline for proposals is January 20, 2017. For further information, please consult the ALA website at www.americanliterature.org. For questions regarding the sessions, contact jdpsociety@gmail.com. For questions regarding the conference, contact the conference director, Professor Olivia Carr Edenfield at carr@georgiasouthern.edu.

Dos Passos Today Roundtable, ALA 2017

updated: 
Tuesday, November 15, 2016 - 10:08am
John Dos Passos Society
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 20, 2017

The John Dos Passos Society invites proposals for a roundtable scheduled at The American Literature Association’s 28th annual conference, which will meet at the Westin Copley Place in Boston on May 25-28, 2017 (Thursday through Sunday of Memorial Day weekend). The deadline for proposals is January 20, 2017. For further information, please consult the ALA website at www.americanliterature.org. For questions regarding the sessions, contact jdpsociety@gmail.com. For questions regarding the conference, contact the conference director, Professor Olivia Carr Edenfield at carr@georgiasouthern.edu.

Fear 2000: 21st Century Monsters Conference - 21-22 April, 2017 (Abstracts due 13 January, 2017)

updated: 
Tuesday, November 15, 2016 - 1:40pm
Department of Humanities, Sheffield Hallam University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 13, 2017

We invite proposals for 20 minute papers and 90 minute panels for the second Fear 2000 conference at Sheffield Hallam University: Fear 2000: 21st Century Monsters. Hosted by staff and postgraduate students in the Department of Humanities, the conference will investigate the function of monsters in twenty-first century horror cinema and television.

LAST MINUTE REMINDER: ReFocus The International Director: The Films of Michel Gondry

updated: 
Thursday, June 1, 2017 - 5:38pm
ReFocus The International Director
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, May 30, 2017

Michel Gondry (b. 1963) is an internationally recognized auteur, whose work spans music videos, narrative film and documentary. Known for his distinctive aesthetic and unique approach to analogue and digital effects, Gondry’s oeuvre includes collaborations with such leading figures as acclaimed screenwriter Charlie Kaufman (Human Nature; Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind), American comedian Dave Chappelle (Dave Chappelle’s Block Party) and MIT professor/social theorist Noam Chomsky (Is The Man Who is Tall Happy?).

Annual Conference on the Teaching of Writing: Humility and Conviction

updated: 
Tuesday, November 15, 2016 - 10:08am
University of Connecticut First-Year Writing Program
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, January 15, 2017

UConn’s Twelfth Annual Conference on the Teaching of Writing will consider the roles of—and tensions between—humility and conviction in writing and writing instruction. We invite proposals that engage questions such as (but not limited to) the following:

Mum's The Word: Voicing the Female Experience in Popular Culture

updated: 
Sunday, January 15, 2017 - 8:00am
Jade Dillon & Adele Hannon in association with Sibéal Feminist and Gender Studies Network
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 18, 2017

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Sorcha Gunne, NUI Galway. Dr Gunne's paper is entitled 'Gender, Genre and Modernity: Feminist Politics and Irish Chick Lit from a World-Literary Perspective'

 

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